InfoPath Dev

I have one infopath form that takes care of a multitude of functions and data, the form is comprised of 4 views, and at least 300 fields where data could possibly be stored.

The form is published to a sharepoint library and lists specific sets of information depending on the view the user has selected.

My problem is that I have 300 fields with data that i would possibly want to show in a list and sharepoint will not show them all.

So when i publish the form I have the option to add every field of data to the list, but when i get to sharepoint not ever field is included, due to out of box limitations.


is there any way to unrestrict these limitations and possibly give me 300 different fields to create views with in sharepoint?

yes the form has 300 fields however each view will only need to pull about 20 columns. I am using the sharepoint lists to create end of the month reports.

I dont think we can unrestrict the number of columns.
We have limit on number of columns, in this also we have limitation on number of columns for each DataType.

If you find anything please post here.

what about recoding the .net in sharepoint? Unfortunately I do not know .net, but that is the achitecture that sharepoint is built on.

but that is just a wild guess.

The reason i bring it up is because i was told that a function could be coded with .net that would allow better user alerts functionality. One that would tie in with the lookup column within sharepoint and outlook.

Hi jody,

as Agni truely states, SharePoint is limited in the number of fields of each datatype (for some field types such as lookup i think its no more than 2 or 3, for text boxes somewhat higher).

i can se no way to get past this in the current version of SPS, since the limitations are "hardcoded" in the database model.

Sharepoint 2007 has a much more advanced meta data handling, so maybe you should consider upgrading to this new platform.

Beware though that SPS 2007 / WSS 2007 is still only beta2 and not expected to be released anytime soon. You can download the beta2 though and try it out if you like:

WSS 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/7/7/A7780E67-F21A-4265-A445-8EF1F19D223F/SharePoint_setup.exe

hth